Sam invites Fields medal winning mathematicians Walid And Misha as they ponder the various machine mysteries in Gradient Descent, a Mothership adventure by Luke Gearing. Listen to the guys argue about panic checks, formatting decisions, how they would run Monarch, and what the best number is (it's 0).

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